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A new view of the War Poets

Advantages: Very good on the lives of the poets, during and after the conflict
Disadvantages: None

The majority of recent books published on the War Poets tend to focus on their lives during and immediately after the conflict. The book This enterprising and thoroughly engrossing account, named after the poem by Wilfred Owen, takes a different a ...

JOHNV 01.02.2013 · Read full review
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Review of Strange Meetings - Harry Ricketts

Life on the Edge

Advantages: A fascinating man and a simply great poet
Disadvantages: It's almost all love poetry. So if you don't like that...

Robert Graves was not a man to let the past tell its own story. The front of my rather decrepit Penguin edition of his autobiography - and possibly his most famous work - 'Goodbye to All That', describes him as 'the greatest love-poet in English since Jo ...

emma-regina 09.11.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Selected Poems - Robert Graves